ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 58 No 4 (2015), 115–118

Unroofing Technique as an Option for the Endoscopic Treatment of Giant Gastrointestinal Lipomas

Marcela Kopáčová, Stanislav Rejchrt, Jan Bureš

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2016.1
published online: 10. 03. 2016

abstract

Gastrointestinal lipomas are usually asymptomatic, detected incidentally. However, they can cause severe symptoms such as obstruction, invagination, and bleeding. The transsection of an infarcted or large lipoma by needle sphincterotome (needle knife) and/or snare polypectomy of the upper part of the tumour is an option for the endoscopy treatment of giant infarcted lipomas. Cutting a top of lipoma (unroofing technique) allowed flow out of adipose tissue from the lipoma.

keywords: Endoscopy; Giant gastrointestinal lipoma; Needle sphicterotome; Unroofing technique

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ISSN: 1211-4286
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